Breaks $ 350 million ... virtual money: bitcoin!

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Breaks $ 350 million ... virtual money: bitcoin!




by Grelinette » 01/03/14, 18:42

The first virtual hold-ud:

http://www.franceinfo.fr/decryptage/hyp ... 2014-02-26

http://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/ ... _3234.html

Funny this new concept of virtual currency, but very real when it disappears! ... It is "Virual-Reality"

Soon, we will have a fictional Jérôme Kerviel, who will lose virtual billions, but the money will nevertheless be well accounted for in the real economy.

What if taxes are virtual, as long as we don't really pay them?

But by the way, do we know if the thieves were real or virtual?
The investigation is ongoing ...
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by Grelinette » 01/03/14, 18:47

By the way, I forgot to tell you, I have a great deal for you:
I have in my possession thousands of virtual gold bars.
I sell them at half price!

If you are interested, send me your checks and tickets by email or fax and I will put your ties aside, virtually of course! : Cheesy:
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by sen-no-sen » 01/03/14, 18:49

This "bitcoin" affair is very revealing of the pitiful state of the economic system!
It is a new bubble in the bubble of speculation, here, the very concept of money loses all its significance, on the other hand the impact can be very real in the life of the investors.

By the way, I forgot to tell you, I have a great deal for you:
I have in my possession thousands of virtual gold bars.
I sell them at half price!


It reminds the story of the pants with one leg of Attali !:
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by Grelinette » 01/03/14, 18:55

sen-no-sen wrote:
By the way, I forgot to tell you, I have a great deal for you:
I have in my possession thousands of virtual gold bars.
I sell them at half price!


It reminds the story of the pants with one leg of Attali !:


Ha ha ha :D , I did not know her.
The story is there: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-VXWX-_CuM
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by Ahmed » 01/03/14, 19:05

Since money no longer relates to a metal value, which is already quite a while ago, it is purely virtual, just like this "bitcoin"; it is only a conventional mode of representation of social relations.
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by Grelinette » 01/03/14, 19:11

Chuis con ... I hadn't even thought that the 350 M $ of the virtual breakage, the breakers they have only to print them to use them!
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by turista » 01/03/14, 20:43

The 755.000BTC have never disappeared in the volatilized sense. They were stolen and still exist, either in BTC, or in dollars or euros or something else ... In short, a theft as it already exists in other currencies.

And no, we do not print bitcoins, it does not exist, we print the public key of our wallet to make exchanges.

And as Ahmed said above, ALL currencies are just as "virtual", the value of a currency is only the confidence we want to give it. On the other hand, this is not regulated by a central bank, but by a solid and strict algorithm.

FYI, it happened in December 2013 on the drug exchange site Black Market Sheep author of $ 100.000.000.

The real problem that emerges is rather that people take the trading places for banks and leave their BTC lying around online, and inevitably will be hacked one day.
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by Christophe » 06/05/14, 12:20

We do not print the vast majority of official currency either! Less than 5% is in the form of coins and banknotes!

See the definition of monetary aggregates !!!


http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masse_mon%C3%A9taire

I had missed this subject, I wanted to talk about bitcoins for a long time! Today it's very speculative, see the incredible curve of the bitcoin price!

But basically, it is a non-governmental "open source" currency that could certainly revolutionize the monetary system, the limits of which we know!

So can bitcoin change the monetary system? May be...
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by Ahmed » 06/05/14, 12:31

Yes, the majority of money is only a figure entered on a database, this figure being deducted or increased according to movements on other accounts ...

Currency has a real and fictitious dual nature, quite subtle to understand!

In addition, physical wealth has nothing to do with value: it is (almost) not to be found! :P
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by Christophe » 04/03/15, 12:00

"Better" than bank money creation?

Visit of a bitoin "mine": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8kua5B5K3I

(...)
Bitcoin currency of the future? This is what think four mysterious Chinese engineers, who have invested to set up six "mines" manufacturing this virtual currency thanks to thousands of computers installed in specific buildings and monitored by employees. Calculating continuously, twenty-four hours a day, these thousands of "miners" produce between 20 and 25 bitcoins per "mine" every day. The six sites generate more than 1,3 million euros each month.
(...)


http://www.courrierinternational.com/ar ... e-bitcoins
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